While it is a different experience playing games on a gaming console plugged into your big screen TV, having a handheld device that you can use to play your favorite games on the go is a rage now. Android has ported and brought multiple AAA gaming titles ...

Steam Deck owners are increasingly turning to their phones to tame sprawling libraries, tweak performance and squeeze more playtime out of every charge. The latest wave of companion tools for iOS and Android turns that second screen into a control center ...

Matthew was the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police until 2025. Reviews on the Play Store are down to a 2.3 rating for Android's Steam app, which is incredibly low. Each review calls out the issue: the app won't boot. Having tested this ourselves, we ...

Valve has unveiled its first look at its new gaming machines, including Steam Frame, a virtual reality headset that can handle VR and non-VR games. Apparently, Steam Frame is also being used as a way to bring Android games directly to Steam users.

Tension: PC gamers want couch-ready, 4K-HDR play without the cable clutter—but one stutter will yank them back to a desk chair. Noise: Tech headlines trumpet ever-higher resolutions, masking the mundane bottlenecks (Wi-Fi hops, legacy codecs, controller ...

And emulation software allows you to run some x86 apps and games on Arm-based processors, as well as play some Windows games on Linux systems. All of which is to say, it probably shouldn’t be surprising that you can now install Steam and play PC games on a number of relatively inexpensive handheld game consoles with Qualcomm chips designed for smartphones.

Steam Frame dev kits will help studios optimise games for the new headset. Android apps run natively on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip without translation. New 2160x2160 LCD lenses offer a major resolution jump over the Valve Index. Launch planned for early ...